Khan’s Mongolian

I just don’t get it…
Ambiance/​Décor * Apparently Khan’s has had the same owner for 30 years and is planning on retiring soon and it shows. While it’s not much to look at from the outside it is very dated, dingy and dirty on the inside. There are still the vents in the ceiling from when it was a Hibachi place at some time which isn’t the end of the world but you would cover them if anyone cared. Everything I touched was filthy, salt and pepper shakers actually stick to the table while every dish seems to have leftover food on it. The floor is sagging all over the place so be careful for the dips as you walk towards the filthy bathrooms. The floor under the grills looks like it has dropped a full foot.
Service ** The owner is very nice but nobody else seems to care that they are there and are just going through the motions. The cooks that you hand your food to are just miserable.
Food ** When you sit you receive peel and eat shrimp, salad and steamed dumplings, which are basically edible. After this you are «allowed» to go up and design your own dish. The buffet consists of raw meats which are frozen and sliced very thin, this is a good thing though to reduce spoilage and quicken cooking times. The rest of the line consists of your basic vegetables and noodles. To me none of it screams «fresh» as others have mentioned. Upon handing your plate to the cook you choose between 5 sauces, no questions, just choose your sauce. They will push it around on a large flat top grill then return it to you without even a hint of personality. So basically your dinner will be as good as you are in combining ingredients and how much you enjoy the sauces. The thinly sliced meats just disappear in the noodles and the whole thing becomes just became a disappointment.
Value ** It is all you can eat, $ 18.95 for adults and $ 9.95 for kids, so you can go back up several times but it is truly only for the most glutinous as I can’t imagine you can eat all that much of this
Overall ** We ate here twice, the second time because I couldn’t understand all the positive reviews but nonetheless came away with the same impression both times. It is a quirky place that I guess needs to be tried but for me it is time has come to be retired.

Owned and run by the same couple /​family for decades, and still amazing! This is still a place great enough to drive across the bridge and battle traffic for. 5 minutes south of the Palisades Mall, and well worth it!
It’s prix fixe, and a great deal and quality! I recommend either a pot of hot tea where a Chinese beer called Tsing Tao [ching-​taow] is light, refreshing, and in great accompaniment; available by the bottle only for a reasonable price.
It’s all you can eat, and you create your own, so if you don’t love it or if you leave hungry, it’s kind of your own fault!

I’ve been coming to Kahn’s for years. Make your own, all you eat can meal-​what could be better?! I love the «starters» before visiting the grill. Soup, salad, shumai, shrimp, and the bread! I like to have a huge bowl of veggies stir fried with some tofu and pork. Be sure to save some room for ice cream at the end!

There is so much I can say about this place… so I guess I will! This restaurant is one of a kind in Rockland County and has established a brand of its own, being opened for 28+ years now. I have been eating dinner here for as long as I can remember and from my experience, so has many others. The number of loyal customers to this place is plentiful and amazing.
As for the food, everything is fresh, like literally. Almost everything is prepped in-​house! For dinner, it starts off with Appetizers. The shrimp cocktail comes with unpeeled shrimp which may freak some people out but I kind of appreciate it because it means it;s fresh and no one has had their grubby hands all over the shrimp. Their cocktail sauce is made in-​house, a perfect hit of horseradish. Their salad looks to be iceberg lettuce topped with chopped peanuts. It is freshly tossed upon arrival with this tangy dressing that is also made in-​house. The last is their delicious made-​from-​scratch steamed Shu-​mai dumplings.
Then comes the choice of wonton, hot and sour or seafood soup (all made in-​house as well!). I think what I appreciate most about the soup is that is not as thick as other Chinese restaurants. Typically, these soups have so much corn starch in it where it becomes so gummy. Khan’s does not compare to that. It is more natural in texture of what soup should be and the taste of the soups give a great delicious punch of flavor.
After the soup is buffet time of raw ingredients that are to be cooked right in front of you. The meat is hand-​carved by the Owner himself, Danny. The veggies and fruit are prepped daily. While your food is being cooked, rice and fresh-​made pocket bread will be waiting for you at the table. That bread is like crack. You can stuff it, dip it, or just eat it as a side bread to your meal. It is nice and crispy on the outside, soft and flakey on the inside. I personally have mastered stuffing it with my noodles and meat while using chopsticks. So good!!!
Although I am stuffed by the end of the buffet phase, I can’t help but go up again and get some fresh fruit like watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew melon. They also provide a selection of ice cream including chocolate, coconut, creamsicle and pistachio. I love the pistachio personally but the chocolate is also great to tip fortune cookies with.
While enjoying all this, I have had some amazing drinks accompanied with the meal. First off, this is one of the few places that offer Tsing Tao — the beer of my people! TAIWAN! They also offer the best pina colata I have ever had. It is fresh made, none of that store-​bought artificial premade mixes. The same goes for the infamous mai-​tais. The mai tai is made with a concoction of fruit juices, personally prepped by the owner. If you like it sweet, I would recommend the Mai-​Tai. If you like it refreshing, the pina colata is devine.
Everything here is delicious and I love it so much!!! It’s so unique with their giant two grills. It definitely is a unique and yummy dining experience!

Excellent.
1) For dinner, they start you off with shrimp cocktail, pork dim sum, peanuts and vinegar dressing salad, hot tea and choice of soup.
2) Then they inform you to start the buffet. Which has vegetables, sauces and meat (beef, chicken, lamb, pork, shrimp). Plus they bring you sesame bread and rice.
3) The price is reasonable and ambiance is very nice. Better than the other Mongolian place I visit in NJ called Magic Grill.

Don’t let the exterior scare you away, the food and service is worth the visit. Decent selection of meats and good choice of vegetables. I encourage you to try different combination of sauces to personalize your dish.

If I could give fifty stars, I would. This place has never failed to disappoint, year after year after year. The most delicious meal in the area, and even after moving halfway across the country I keep coming back.
The setup is perfect. Light tasty apps and delicious soups set the stage for an all-​out flavor fest of your personal design. Eat all you can while you’re here; you won’t be this satisfied with a meal until you drag yourself back to brag to new friends about your little rt 303 secret.
As if it matters with food this good, the service and ambiance are also consistently stellar.

This place is great. The food is very good but the service is fabulous. The owner really understands he’s in a service business. He makes you feel welcome and appreciates that your there. Treats you like a buddy coming to dinner.
The food is very good. The salad was great, the wontons are amazing and the shrimp tastes very fresh and the sauce for the shrimp tastes fresh and fantastic. This is all brought out right as you sit down. Then the wonton soup was excellent… could just sip the broth itself.
I had a bit of everything for dinner, some lamb, beef, chicken, etc. Remember to bring some small bills to tip the cooks.
Finally finish with some ice cream to top it off.
When we were there a server spilled a glass of water on the table and a little on the wife. Really apologetic and moved us to a new table right away. He even picked up the tab on some mai tais for us.
The price is fantastic. Again I doubt we were charged for the mai tais and he spoiled us with some vodka shots… as I said he treats you like a buddy coming to dinner. But we were 4 people, had 6 maj tais, some shots, a couple of sodas and of course dinner and it came out to $ 112…amazing.
We’re definitely going back and back and back. Thanks for the great night.

Great food
Come during lunch for a reduced price but doesn’t include the dessert at the end

Good spot, unique experience however the meats are lacking in flavour and freshness plus the place could use a thorough cleaning and renovation.
If you are passing through I would stop in, otherwise I would not go out of my way. The food is good but nothing spectacular, the meats hold very little flavour due them being frozen and VERY THINLY SLICED, it leaves nothing for the palate to experience. The reason they do this is to keep costs low but at this point it is serving as a detriment to their finished product. The other raw ingredients in the buffet bar seem fresh though and the soups were good too.
Other than that, the staff is very friendly and they make a KICK ASS MAI TAI!!!

Despite having lived nearby for years, decided to rectify never having patronized Khan’s last week by going for dinner. The place was pretty busy for a Monday night. The owner who also plays the role of host, waiter and busboy pours a strong drink. The proteins with the exception of the shrimp were frozen but tasted fine after being cooked. I tried #4 (black bean sauce) on the recommendation of the owner as he said it was the best. I was hoping for something similar to Korean black bean noodles and was let down since it made everything taste burnt and flavorless. Sauce #5 is the only one I would suggest. Overall it seems like made to order Chinese food which is not to say it’s a bad thing but there’s no rush to return.

This is not a Mongolian restaurant. I’m Mongolian, and there’s nothing but Chinese chef, Chinese dishes and Chinese ambience here. False representation of Mongolian culture. If you like the food, good for you, enjoy it. But if you think this is how Mongolian people eat, I’d like to invite you to google to check for authenticity.

Contrary to
, this restaurant is not closed, it is very much open, and awesome. When you sit down (for dinner, dunno if lunch is different), you are presented with dumplings, shrimp and soup (seafood, hot and sour, or wonton). Once putting that down (it’s all awesome), you go up to the counter and fills bowl with frozen meat, noodles, and a combination of veggies if so desired. There’s a selection of oils and sauces at the end of the line, should you need them. From there, you give the lovely bowl you’ve created to the chefs, who cook it and sauce it. Basically, there’s no one to blame for bad food but you!
Once you’ve downed all the Bbq you can handle, ice cream time! Try the coconut/​chocolate combo… It’s awesome!

First mongolian dish and restaurant that I have been to! They will give you a hot tea, appetizer, (salad with peanuts and vinegar dressing) sesame bread that compliments with the dish that you’ve chosen. Also they have a variety of sauces to choose from and you could see the guy that’s using a huge chopstick to cook your food in front of you. This resto is a must try!

This is the best Mongolian food in the Northeastern United States, if not the whole country. MSG– and Gluten-​free, you can eat $ 40 worth of food for $ 18. Although from the outside it looks like a crummy strip mall restaurant, it is really a miracle hole-​in-​the-​wall. I have been going for twenty years and enjoy it more each time I come. Hot tea, fantastic dumplings, fresh shrimp, and special lettuce await you when you walk in. A choice of wonton, seafood, and hot-​and-​sour soup is given to you (they’re all amazing, but I get the wonton soup usually). Once you finish, you are given freshly baked sesame buns right out of the oven. You walk over to the buffet, and get a choice of pork, beef, lamb, chicken, tofu, and shrimp. All different kinds of fresh vegetables from broccoli to water chestnuts to pineapple await you. Then you put sauces on: garlic, lemon or sugar water, ginger sauce, soy sauce, and cooking wine. You hand this plate to the chefs in the window and tell them what cooking sauce you want them to apply, and give your plate to them. They cook on convex woks so that all the fat and bad sauces run off. This is how the food is Mongolian and not Chinese. You get your food, and you can come back as much as you like. Rice is optional. Fresh Melon and then ice cream (chocolate, creamsicle, pistachio, or coconut is in order. This is all for $ 18 per person plus tax and tip, and kids eat even cheaper.
Also, the service is fantastic. The manager is incredibly sweet and always ready to serve you. He is very hardworking, and often mixes drinks, waits and buses tables at the same time! Yet he is perennially kind and ready to serve you. I think that if Kahn’s was in New York City, there would never be any space available because it is so packed!
Kahn’s also has a liquor license, but drinks aren’t included in the $ 18.
Although getting to Kahn’s may seem like a long trip, it usually only takes about 25 – 30 minutes to get there from Midtown Manhattan or Western Nassau County. Take the Upper Level of the George Washington Bridge to the Palisades Parkway going North into New York State, and get off at Exit 5N at New York State Route 303. Continue on 303 going North until you get to the corner of 303 and Erie St. It is just beyond the corner on your left.
Even if you live far out on Long Island or Upstate New York, if you are in that area, Kahn’s is the place to go.

I first ate at Khan’s Mongolian 20 years ago. Though I have moved from Rockland County I have returned every few years to enjoy this restaurant.
The owners are always very friendly and eager to please. The décor has not changed since I first ate there, and is in need of an update. However, the food is delicious and I enjoyed every bite. My wife and I stopped in for lunch and you cannot beat the deal. We started with the salad which was excellent, and followed with the wonton soup which was a bit too salty for us.
We then proceeded to the main station to fill our bowl with fresh meat, shrimp, tofu, lomaine and an assortment of veggies. I picked out the teriyaki sauce and the chef cooks it in front of you within 2 – 3 minutes. Upon returning to the table we enjoyed our meal with the addition of the bread which you can split open and add some of the contents from your entrée. The food was great. What we like is you can pick what you want for your entrée and obtain your desired meat to veggie ratio. Picking your own sauce from a selection of 5 also aids in customizing your meal.
We were glad we stopped in for lunch and hope to return again soon.

This place been here since I was a kid. Love the place. You get to pick out what you want and they cook it on a mongolian flat top. Pick your sauces! All you can eat. Prices are very good. You get a soup, appetizers, and dessert too. Chinese food with a twist!

Don’t turn away after seeing the outside of the restaurant. My now husband took me here while we were dating and from the appearance of the outside I was like, «Are you kidding me???» Come to find out the food is delicious, experience and owners awesome. A superb hole in the wall that has become one of our favorite spots!
Great lunch special!

If this is how the people in Mongolia eat every day, I am jealous.
Kahn’s is a pretty great concept. There are no menus here — for under 20 bucks, everything is included.
You sit down, and within seconds are brought dumplings and sauce, shrimp, and salad (shredded lettuce with nuts and a light dressing), as well as hot tea. The friendly owner comes and takes soup orders (seafood, hot and sour, and wonton — seafood is the go-​to!), and those arrive a minute later. You’re free to eat as much appetizers as you’d like (and ask for more), but don’t fill up!
The «Mongolian style» BBQ features a buffet-​style setup. The catch: everything is raw, including the meats, which include thinly sliced beef, chicken, pork, and lamb, as well as shrimp and tofu. There are two types of noodles, and a variety of vegetables and garnishes as well.
When your bowl is all set, you hand it over to be cooked on a large circular grill — in under a minute (really!), you’re all set! When you give it to the cook, you select a sauce as well — the options include teriyaki, «standard» (a mix of a bunch), and a couple others such as black bean and BBQ. I always get teriyaki or standard, and am nervous to try the mysterious others.
A couple bowl-​making tips: The food cooks down, so you can pile the bowl high… but there’s no reason to, since you can always get more food in a minute’s time. I never bother with the sauces in the buffet, since the same sauces are being put on by the cooks.
While you’re getting food, they’ll bring rice and DELICIOUS flat bread to the table — you can eat the bread plain, but we’ve been told the «correct» way is to open it up and put meat in there.
Dessert is a selection of ice cream as well as fruit from the buffet.
To review: This is a feast, the food is great, the service is friendly, it’s under 20 bucks, and it’s SUPER quick too.
If you wanted to find a downside, it’s the atmosphere/​building. The exterior is an old, run-​down looking one that you’d drive by saying «ohhh that place looks sketch.» The inside is old, sparsely decorated, and not especially clean looking. So just ignore these things and don’t bring a first date here, and you’re fine.

Finally.
After years of looking for a «legit» (read: like what they have in Asia) Mongolian BBQ place in the NY area — Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan’s popped up on my radar. By the end of the meal, this place had me screaming like William Shatner.
Before we talk about the food — I’d like to enlighten some folks about Mongolian BBQ first — to put some context into this particular review (and others here as well).
Mongolian BBQ is not Mongolian food. In fact, there’s nothing Mongolian about it. It was created by some folks in Taiwan about 30 – 40 years ago. It was modeled after Japanese teppanyaki (which was, and remains a popular dish in Taiwan). They tweaked the ingredients with heavier/​meatier offerings to give it that «Mongolian» touch — but Mongolian BBQ is about as «authentic» as a fake Prada bag. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t taste good, but it’s just not Mongolian — so be mindful of folks who refer to «authenticity» issues when they make references to the cuisine.
Now on to the food.
So what makes this place so freakin’ awesome? Well there are a couple of things.
One — it may not look like much and the décor seems to straight out of an 80’s TV set in a Chinese restaurant — but the owner here has a long pedigree in operating this type of BBQ restaurant in Asia. That is clearly evident in the way they treat their ingredients — which are extremely fresh. Couple that with the type of grills they use — and you have the recipe for a good meal. If you take a closer look at what’s offered — you’ll notice the meats are all pretty fresh and even the lamb here tastes good. The latter cooks very tenderly and isn’t nearly as gamey compared to the lamb I’ve tasted in lesser-​quality establishments. They are also very generous with the shrimps — as they come included with the AYCE price (while other places insist on a surcharge for shrimps). I also notice that while many people like to use the egg noodles, I recommend trying out the flat noodles in their place. The taste of the white-​colored ho-​fun noodles, combined with the meat and sauce combo, works surprisingly well and isn’t nearly as filling as the egg noodle option.
It is great that they give folks the option to tweak their own sauces, but personally I recommend you go with the sauces that are pre-​set (that the chefs do for you while they cook your meat). As much as it may be «fun» to figure out your own sauces, truth be told most people have no clue how to mix the right balance and end up just splashing way too much soy sauce in the pre-​cooked ingredients — making it way too salty and drying out the meat in the process. I recommend either sauce #4 or 5 when it comes to asking the chef to prepare it for you.
Another pleasant surprise are some of the accompaniments. The sesame biscuits that come with the dish (and is traditionally served as a starch option at all Mongolian BBQ restaurants) are surprisingly excellent. The owner says they are made on the premises and it definitely tastes like it — compared to the stiff, reheated frozen crap that’s served in other places. Their hot and sour soup is also surprisingly good, with the right balance of spicy and sour mixed in.
In closing — while Mongolian BBQ itself isn’t an authentic Mongolian dish, these guys here do a great job of emulating what makes a similar type of restaurant in Asia so successful. Their attention to fresh meat, veggies and other ingredients really go a long way, and their care in creating savory and tasty sauces adds to the nice effect.
To be honest, I thought I was misreading it when I saw all the high reviews for this joint … for a place that’s located in the middle of nowhere for us Manhattan denizens. But I now see why they get the thumbs up from most other Unilocalers. If you’re looking for a solid Mongolian BBQ experience — definitely make the effort to come here, you’ll be glad you did.
(Note — this is really 4.5 stars, as I docked half a star for the old school décor, but hey, you’re not here to eat the furniture).